"A fresh, innovative perspective on education."
Lori Heather Rice is a sixteen year survivor of the educational system as a classroom teacher, and has been nominated for and received many awards during her teaching career. She began teaching in 1996 in the very elementary school she attended as a child. Lori has been nominated for the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science twice, was USD 320 Elementary Teacher of the Year in 2010, was a Region 2 semi-finalist for Kansas Teacher of the Year 2011, received numerous grants such as USD 320 Lap Top Grant, Friends of the Park Train Project, Foods in the Classroom Grant, and Educate America Excellence in Teaching Sub-Grant "Project Write Home" for a home to school reading program. She has taught K-2 reading, kindergarten, first grade, looping K-1, and fourth grade. Her passions include helping students think critically using effective questioning and differentiated instruction. Lori enjoys learning, reading, playing with her own children, and questioning, so the endless queries of fourth graders make her smile instead of frown. A teacher, first and foremost, Lori also writes, blogs, and provides professional development for educators. Check out her classroom at www.riceclassroom.blogspot.com
May always comes in with a gust and flies by. I scramble to reflect on the year, cram in last-minute curriculum, organize parents and lunches for field trips & play day, wrap my head around the data that must be collected, input data into … [Read more...]
The purpose of reading is to learn. Text has the ability to transport us to other times and places, it can expand our knowledge and experience base and it is everywhere in our worlds. Understanding words, texts, passages, poetry, and books is an … [Read more...]
My mother is an amazing woman. She has a calm sense about her in every situation I have ever observed her in. She has four unique and different children she has watched struggle, grow, develop, fail and succeed. She is my center and what I … [Read more...]
Teaching in a small town has many perks. I am teaching in the room I learned in as a student. I know many of my families before they step through our classroom door the first day of school. Running errands around town brings smiles, hellos, hugs, … [Read more...]
World Peace and Other 4th Grade Achievements, by John Hunter Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, April 2013 As teachers we need inspiration and support. If you are feeling a need to think about your purpose in the classroom and the meaning you … [Read more...]
